2009-01-30

Glacier Melt Accelerating

World Glacier Monitoring Service

The new data continues the global trend in accelerated ice loss over the past few decades

study

2009-01-28

Ocean Dead Zones

University of Copenhagen
Lead author: Gary Shaffer
Where published: Nature Geoscience

Any increase in dead zones from global warming will last for thousands of years. They will be a permanent fixture ... In the worst-case scenario, dead zones could encompass more than a fifth of the world's oceans

article

Warming Irreversible Due to CO2

NOAA, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat
Lead Author: Susan Solomon
Where published: Proceedings of the Natl Academy of Sciences

climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop

study

2009-01-02

Warming Worse than IPCC Projections

MIT
Lead author: A.P. Solokof

all our simulations have a very small probability of warming less than 2.4°C, the lower bound of the IPCC AR4 projected likely range

study